STM publisher Thieme has announced that its journal Planta Medica will celebrate its 60th anniversary at this year's International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) in Münster from September 1-5. Being the official organ of GA, the journal first appeared in 1953, and since then Planta Medica has grown into one of the leading international journals in the field of medicinal plant and natural product research.
To mark this festive occasion, a special anniversary ceremony will be hosted by Professor Dr. Luc Pieters (Editor-in-Chief), Professor Dr. Adolf Nahrstedt (Senior Editor) and Professor Dr. Matthias Hamburger (Review Editor) at the annual congress of GA. The anniversary ceremony will also provide the occasion to present the first Thieme Award for the Most Innovative Paper of the Year. The 2013 prize will go to the research group headed by Dr. Susan Murch of the University of British Columbia for their ground-breaking work on plant metabolomics.
This year, Professor Dr. Luc Pieters will again chair a workshop on how to successfully publish scientific papers.
Available online and in print, Planta Medica, is one of the leading international journals in the field of medicinal plants and natural product research with original research papers, letters, rapid communications, reviews, minireviews and perspectives from researchers worldwide. The journal publishes 18 issues per year.
